century, but a series of later
writings down to the eve of the Revolution. Gueulette's adaptations and
imitations ranged from the _Soirees Bretonnes_, published in 1712 during
Hamilton's lifetime, to the _Thousand and One Hours_, 1733, the other
collections mentioned in the text coming between. It may be worth
mentioning that, being an industrious editor as well as tale-teller and
playwright, he reprinted _Le Petit Jehan de Saintre_ in 1724 and
Rabelais in 1732. Caylus's tales seem to have been scattered over the
middle third of the century from about 1730 to his death in 1765.
Cazotte's _Diable Amoureux_ (not in the _Cabinet_) is of 1772--he had
written very inferior things of the tale kind full thirty years earlier.
Mme. Le Prince de Beaumont (who was long an actual governess in England)
wrote her numerous "books for the young" for the most part between 1757
(_Le Magazin des Enfants_) and 1774 (_Contes Moraux_).

Lesage. _Le Diable Boiteux_, 1707; _Gil Blas de Santillane_, 1715-35.

Marivaux. _Les Effets Surprenants_, 1713-14; _Marianne_, 1731-36; _Le
Paysan Parvenu_, 1735.

Prevost. _Memoires d'un Homme de Qualite_, 1728-32, followed by _Manon
Lescaut_, 1733; _Cleveland_, 1732-39; _Le Doyen de Killerine_, 1735;
_Histoire d'une Grecque Moderne_, 1741.

(It may not be impertinent to draw attention to the fact that Prevost,
like Defoe--though not quite to the same extent, and in the middle, not
towards the end of his career--concentrated the novel-part of an
enormous polygraphic production upon a few years.)

Crebillon _fils_. _Lettres de la Marquise_, 1732; _Tanzai et Neadarne_,
1734; _Les Egarements_, 1736; _Le Sopha_, 1745; _La Nuit et le Moment_,
1755; _Le Hasard au Coin du Feu_, 1763; _Ah! Quel Conte!_ 1764.

Voltaire's _Tales_ were distributed over a large part of his long and
insatiably busy life; but none of his best are very early. _Zadig_ is of
1747; _Micromegas_ of 1752; _Candide_ of 1759; _L'Ingenu_ and _La
Princesse de Babylone_ of 1767 and 1768 respectively.

Rousseau. _La Nouvelle Heloise_, 1760; _Emile_, 1762.

Diderot. _Les Bijoux Indiscrets_, 1748. _Jacques le Fataliste_ and _La
Religieuse_ were posthumously published, but must have been written much
earlier than their author's death in 1784.

Marmontel. _Contes Moraux_ appeared in the official or semi-official
_Mercure de France_, with which the author was connected from 1753-60,
being its manager or editor for the last two of these years. _B